Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman, R. L., & Jehl, J. R.. (1998). Geographic variation and reassessment of species limits in “Masked” Boobies of the eastern Pacific. Wilson Bulletin, 110, 155-170.

Parsons, K. M., Durban, J. W., Burdin, A. M., Burkanov, V. N., Pitman, R. L., Barlow, J., et al.. (2013). Geographic Patterns of Genetic Differentiation among Killer Whales in the Northern North Pacific. Journal of Heredity, 104(6), 737 - 754. doi:10.1093/jhered/est037

Van Noord, J. E., Lewallen, E. A., & Pitman, R. L.. (2013). Flyingfish feeding ecology in the eastern Pacific: prey partitioning within a speciose epipelagic community. Journal of Fish Biology, 83(2), 326 - 342. doi:10.1111/jfb.12173

Brooke, M. D. L., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Furness, R. W.. (2006). Fishery impacts on the food supplies of seabirds. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 52, 639-640.

Turvey, S. T., Pitman, R. L., Taylor, B. L., Barlow, J., Akamatsu, T., Barrett, L. A., et al.. (2007). First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?. Biology Letters, 3(5), 537 - 540. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0292

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Sironi, M., Totterdell, J., Towers, J. R., & Wellard, R.. (2020). Enigmatic megafauna: type D killer whale in the Southern Ocean. Ecology, 101(1). doi:10.1002/ecy.2871

Fiedler, P. C., Redfern, J. V., Van Noord, J., Hall, C., Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2013). Effects of a tropical cyclone on a pelagic ecosystem from the physical environment to top predators. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 484, 1 - 16. doi:10.3354/meps10378

Pitman, R. L., Perryman, W. L., LeRoi, D., & Eilers, E.. (2007). A Dwarf Form of Killer Whale in Antarctica. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(1), 43 - 48. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-118R1.1

Jefferson, T. A., Pitman, R. L., Leatherwood, S., & Dolar, M. L. L.. (1997). Developmental and sexual variation in the external appearance of Fraser's dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei). Aquatic Mammals, 23, 145-153.

Feeney, R. F., Lavenberg, R. J., & Pitman, R. L.. (2010). Description of a complete Liopropoma larva from the Gulf of California (Mexico) and its comparison with L. fasciatum and L. longilepis (Actinopterygii: Epinephelidae). Ciencias Marinas, 36(1), 83 - 89. doi:10.7773/cm.v36i1.1674

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (1990). Daytime Feeding by Leach's Storm-Petrel on a Midwater Fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. The Condor, 92(2), 524. doi:10.2307/1368253

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2012). Cooperative hunting behavior, prey selectivity and prey handling by pack ice killer whales (Orcinus orca), type B, in Antarctic Peninsula waters. Marine Mammal Science, 28(1), 16 - 36. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00453.x

Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., et al.. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20(7), 908 - 916. doi:10.1101/gr.102954.109

Wellard, R., Pitman, R. L., Durban, J. W., & Erbe, C.. (2020). Cold call: the acoustic repertoire of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, Type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 191228. doi:10.1098/rsos.191228

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C.. (2005). Clipperton Island: Pig sty, rat hole and booby prize. Marine Ornithology, 33, 193-194.

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2002). The changing status of marine birds breeding at San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Wilson Bulletin, 114(1), 11-19.

Ballance, L. T., & Pitman, R. L.. (1998). Cetaceans of the Western Tropical Indian Ocean: Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Comparisons with Cetacean Communities of Two Other Tropical Ecosystems. Marine Mammal Science, 14(3), 429-459.

Ballance, L. T., Anderson, R. C., Pitman, R. L., Stafford, K. M., Shaan, A., Waheed, Z., & Jr., R. L. Brownell. (2001). Cetacean sightings around the Republic of the Maldives, April 1998. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 3(2), 213-218.

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Book review: Albatross. Their world, their ways. Wilson Bulletin, 121, 217-218.

Pitman, R. L., & Lynn, S.. (2001). Biological observations of an unidentified mesoplodont whale in the eastern tropical Pacific and probable identity: Mesoplodon peruvianus. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):648-657., 17(3), 648-657.

Karnovsky, J. J., Spear, L. B., Carter, H. R., Ainley, D. G., Amey, K. D., Ballance, L. T., et al.. (2005). At-sea distribution, abundance and habitat affinities of Xantus’s Murrelets. Marine Ornithology, 33, 89-104.

Eguchi, T., Gerrodette, T., Pitman, R. L., Seminoff, J. A., & Dutton, P. H.. (2007). At-sea density and abundance estimates of the olive ridley turtle Lepidochelys olivacea in the eastern tropical Pacific. Endangered Species Research, 3, 191 - 203. doi:10.3354/esr003191

Dalebout, M. L., Ross, G. J. B., C. Baker, S., Anderson, R. C., Best, P. B., Cockcroft, V. G., et al.. (2003). Appearance, distribution, and genetic distinctiveness of Longman’s Beaked Whale, Indopacetus pacificus. Marine Mammal Science 19(3):421-461, 19(3), 421-461.

Durban, J. W., & Pitman, R. L.. (2011). Antarctic killer whales make rapid, round-trip movements to subtropical waters: evidence for physiological maintenance migrations?. Biology Letters, 8(2), 274 - 277. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0875

Fearnbach, H., Durban, J. W., Ellifrit, D. K., & Pitman, R. L.. (2019). Abundance of Type A killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology, 42(8), 1477 - 1488. doi:10.1007/s00300-019-02534-z